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Sunday, July 10, 2011

B-747-8 High Altitude Testing Snubbed

You won't believe what the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority told Boeing when the company asked to perform some testing there!  I can understand the concern for snarling traffic.  If they'd left it at that I would have been right with them, but for them to say that working with the single most experienced commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world might "tarnish their image" pretty much makes the ECAA the punch line of their own joke.  Go figure...

http://www.newsdire.com/news/1946-boeing-asks-ethiopian-permission-to-conduct-b747-8-test-flights.html

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